My father voted for Romaniaโ€™s ultra-nationalist. I am beginning to understand why | Andrei Popoviciu

We need to hear out family and friends who feel mainstream parties have let them down. This was a cry for helpLast Sunday, my country was jolted awake by a collective shock. For days, weโ€™ve been consumed by one name: Cฤƒlin Georgescu. His unexpected ris…

France doubles down on age minimum of 15 for social media use

Paris renews push for EU-wide uptake of its “digital majority” at 15.

Partyโ€™s over: Trump takes fizz out of election night as embassies ditch soirees

U.S. election night 2024 promises to be a sober affair in Europe.

Peak America: No matter who wins Tuesday, Europe has already lost

U.S. interest in the continent has been in decline since the end of the Cold War.

Garรงonniรจres review โ€“ male insecurities revealed as film goes back to the man cave

Cรฉline Pernet places a number of willing volunteers in front of a camera and asks them a series of candid questions, and the responses form a fascinating tapestry of experienceIn an era where conversations between strangers often take place through scr…

How a digital detox day could help people take control of downtime

Offline Clubโ€™s first global event on Sunday will begin with tips on how to be phone-free for 24 hours every weekHaunted by a pile of unread books? Or taunted by climbing equipment lurking in the cupboard? If you are one of the UK adults who spends on a…

Trade policy: 20 people to meet at Labour conference

We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labourโ€™s trade policy.

Volkswagen is the anti-Tesla and China is to blame

The German carmaker faces a triple threat from China, a lagging EV transition and labor worries.

โ€˜The game continuesโ€™: evacuating casualties and bombing bridges in Kursk

Drone operators and a volunteer medic on the ever-changing dynamics on the frontline of the Ukraine incursionRussia-Ukraine war โ€“ latest news updatesDeep into one recent night, at a Ukrainian mobile drone command point hidden amid the fields and forest…

ย โ€˜Weโ€™re the only plane in the sky:โ€™ 9/11 on board Air Force One

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.

Nicole Kidmanโ€™s erotic drama Babygirl sets pulses racing at Venice film festival

Film among host of sexually explicit features on this yearโ€™s lineup as erotica returns to screens after years of chastityItโ€™s been 25 years since Nicole Kidman starred in Stanley Kubrickโ€™s erotic classic Eyes Wide Shut opposite her then husband, Tom Cr…

Send Snoop to the Convention: What political media can learn from the Olympics

Bringing more celebrities into political coverage could make it livelier โ€” and perhaps even more informative.

โ€˜Weโ€™ve been blown awayโ€™: Olympics give France feelgood factor but challenges remain

Political turmoil gave way to people buying into the Games but leaders know sustaining optimism is not easyIn a park by the canal edge in Saint-Denis, Laken Lima sat in a deckchair at an Olympic fan zone watching the taekwondo on a big screen, as touri…

Facing arrest, defiant separatist leader Carles Puigdemont returns to Barcelona

Police forces are under orders to take the former Catalan regional president into custody.

TikTok to ditch โ€˜addictiveโ€™ tool in Europe at EUโ€™s request

TikTok promised not to roll out a reward program in its Lite app to push users to engage more in the European Union.

5 signs Paris Olympics are a hit โ€” even with the French

Fears of chaos have given way to enthusiasm as Parisians embrace the Olympic spirit.

Prisoner movements in Russia fan speculation of impending swap

Putin may see the advantages of a historic exchange with Biden rather than Trump, who says he will give Moscow “nothing” in any deal.

A defiant Netanyahu vows to stay the course; hits โ€˜useful idiotsโ€™

Netanyahu praised Biden for his โ€œheartfelt supportโ€ following Hamasโ€™ surprise attack.

Global tech outage affects banks, media, airports

The disruptions have been described as a “global technology issue.”

Europe eyes Swedenโ€™s conscription model to solve troop shortage

Germany, the Netherlands and others are looking at Swedenโ€™s system which screens over 100,000 teenagers a year.

Smartphone ban to hit Belgiumโ€™s Francophone schools

New regional government will limit use of smartphones by kids in Brussels and Walloon schools.

โ€˜Our backs are against the wallโ€™: French grassroots mobilise against far right

Activist groups have sprung up across the country in efforts to defeat National Rally in second round of electionsThe truck rumbled through the streets of Montpellier, eliciting insults and bursts of applause as it made its way through the French city….

How the Tory election campaign melted down in six disastrous weeks

Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly โ€” and paid a terrible price.

Itโ€™s Nigel Farageโ€™s praise of Putin we should decry | Letters

Readers respond to the Reform UK leaderโ€™s views on the Russian president, Natoโ€™s actions and the Ukraine warRegarding Simon Jenkinsโ€™ article (Farageโ€™s Ukraine comments were hardly offensive โ€“ other party leaders could use a history lesson, 24 June), I …

London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash

Plans to show The Last Screenwriter, whose script is credited to โ€˜ChatGPT 4.0โ€™, prompted complaints although the film-makers insist the feature is โ€˜a contribution to the causeโ€™A cinema in London has cancelled the world premiere of a film with a script …

โ€˜This could end up uglyโ€™: after Macronโ€™s gamble, will the far right seize power in France?

Marine Le Penโ€™s party is breaking record high scores across vast areas of the country, polls show, with an increase in its influence inevitableIt is 8pm on Sunday 7 July. Polling stations have just closed after the second round of snap French parliamen…

Putinโ€™s a bigger deal than EU election in Europeโ€™s frontline states

In Estonia, Latvia and Poland, residents near the Russian border say the war has ruined their livelihoods and shattered their sense of safety.

Meet the worldโ€™s most successful populist leader

Mexican President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obradorโ€™s ability to command the stage explains a lot about Donald Trump โ€” and offers lessons for Joe Biden.

โ€˜Information can be bent. Emotions are always honestโ€™: the film at the heart of Ukraineโ€™s agonising evacuations

Ivan Sautkinโ€™s work as a volunteer helping people to safety gave him rare access to the trauma faced by people forced from their homes. The director relives the challenges of making the film as it screens in CannesThereโ€™s a moment in Ivan Sautkinโ€™s new…

The fugitive: Carles Puigdemontโ€™s final shot at Catalan independence

The separatist politician is running for president from his camp just across the Spanish border.